Reading Path
Deep Craft
An advanced path for committed practitioners ready to engage with the most demanding texts in each field. Not for the faint of heart, but transformative for those who persevere.
6 books
Art / advanced
Art Since 1900
Susan Sontag
The comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary art.
Art / advanced
Art and Visual Perception
Rudolf Arnheim
The psychology of visual perception, rigorously examined.
Art / advanced
Designing Programmes
Edward R. Tufte
Systematic, programmatic approaches to design.
Architecture / advanced
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Robert Venturi
Venturi's attack on modernist purity — architecture's most important polemic.
Architecture / intermediate
The Eyes of the Skin
Juhani Pallasmaa
Architecture as a multi-sensory art, not just a visual one.
Philosophy / intermediate
Several Short Sentences About Writing
William Zinsser
A radical reconsideration of the sentence as building block.